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Plan-and-Solve

Technique: Plan-and-Solve

Plan the full solution first, then execute. Beats one-shot CoT on multi-step problems.

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Use the Plan-and-Solve protocol. Do not jump to the answer.

Problem:


**Stage 1 — Plan.**
Write a numbered plan of the steps needed to solve this. Each step should be a single concrete action. Do NOT execute any step yet. The plan is the artifact.

**Stage 2 — Sanity-check the plan.**
- Is any step missing?
- Is any step too vague to execute?
- Is the ORDER right?
- What would happen if step N failed?

**Stage 3 — Solve.**
Now execute the plan, one step at a time. For each step, label it: `Step N:` followed by the actual work, followed by `Result:` with the outcome.

**Stage 4 — Final answer.**
Summarize the result in one paragraph. Then state your confidence (low / medium / high) and the single thing most likely to be wrong.
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Solve this: <problem>

Why it works

  • Most CoT failures are planning failures — the model commits to a flawed approach early.
  • Forcing the plan as a separate artifact lets you catch order/missing-step issues before any work is wasted.
  • The 'what if step N failed' question pre-bakes robustness.
  • Confidence + most-likely-wrong-thing keeps the user calibrated instead of trusting the output blindly.

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